With summer in full swing, ticks and mosquitoes are out in Borderland. A record number of tick-born illnesses were reported to the Minnesota Department of Health last year. Health officials are ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick-- also called a deer tick -- is a risk during spring, summer, and fall. A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors ...

Some species, such as black-legged ticks (commonly known as deer ticks), are particularly ... where ticks are likely to attach, such as the neck, armpits, ears, and in between toes.